Jamaica

The following is a second review under the
Extended Arrangement Under the Extended Fund Facility and Request for
Modification of Performance Criteria between the International Monetary Fund
and Jamaica. Download File

The following is an excerpt from the 2013 U.S.
Department of State Trafficking of Persons (TIP) report. It provides details on
human trafficking in Jamaica including, the country’s tier placement (level of
compliance with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s (TVPA) minimum
standards), prosecution and prevention techniques performed by the nation’s
government, and recommendations offered. Download File

The following study examines how the magnitude
of remittances to the Caribbean, particularly Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica.
It focuses on the reasons why foreign nationals of these nations remit, and to
what extent do they do so. Download File

The following report will show that
remittances from migrants of Latin American and the Caribbean will decrease by
as much as 7 percent. This is due to a series of factors including, job losses,
lower earnings, and slower migration (including continued deportations). Download File

The following document offers an update on the
recent developments in the remittance industry, with specific focus on Jamaica.
Evidence shows the importance of remittances to Jamaica, which is seen in its
impact on foreign exchange inflows and Balance of Payments support, as well as,
on household income. Download File

The following contains a letter of intent from
Jamaica to the IMF, which describes the policies that Jamaica intends to
implement in the context of its request for financial support from the IMF. In
addition, a detailed memorandum of the country’s economic and financial
policies has been documented. Download File

The following is a request made by Jamaica for
an extended arrangement under the IMF’s extended facility fund. This report was
issued following discussions that ended on February 15, 2013 with the officials
of Jamaica on economic developments and policies. Download File

Known for its natural beauty, resource
endowments, tropical climate, lively culture, and phenomenal sporting
successes, Jamaica is the largest English-speaking island in the Caribbean and
the third largest in the region. The country also has the advantage of relative
political stability though it has not been spared from the effects of the
current economic downturn. Download File

Health and Family Life Education provides a
framework for the integration of programmes designed to promote development of
appropriate values, attitudes and skills among children, youths and adults for
living healthy and productive lives. To achieve this integration it is
necessary to earmark necessary human and material resources, coordinated by a
HFLE secretariat. Download File

Many developing countries of the world are
engaged in tourism as a means of earning foreign exchange and to redress
balance of payments ills. The economic and political implications of tourism
development in developing countries have attracted the scrutiny of political
scientists who have noted that tourism appears to reinforce traditional
patterns of colonialism. Download File

Jamaica is a small state in the northern
Caribbean with a population of approximately 2.69 million people. 1 The state
faces significant social and economic challenges with chronic unemployment and
underemployment. While the formal economy remains in a stagnant state, the
trade in illegal drugs, arms and ammunition has remained dynamic. Download File

The Jamaican economy has exhibited a striking
and well-documented historical pattern of underperformance in terms of overall
growth since the 1970s, despite an evident capacity to generate limited
expansion in short spurts based on achievements in particular economic sectors
and products. Download File

This case focuses on examining criminal
activity in Jamaica, specifically on the country’s capital city, Kingston. Over
the past thirty years, there has been a general increase in rates of serious
violent crime in Jamaica, particularly within but not exclusively the Kingston
Metropolitan Area (which includes Kingston, St. Andrew and urban St.
Catherine). Download File

The professional services strategy for Jamaica
(2008) identified Health and Wellness as a priority sector for Jamaica.
Government has since taken a number of steps to develop the sector, including
an enterprise-level cluster development programme targeted at building the
institutional capacity of MSMEs and strengthening inter-agency linkages, and
establishing an intra-agency body. Download File

Since the 1994 International Conference on
Population and Development (ICPD), the reproductive health field has
increasingly recognized how men’s roles and norms of masculinity affect their
own and their partners’ reproductive health. As a result, increasing efforts
have been made to design and implement programs to involve men. Download File

The following Brief provides details on how to
go about establishing a business in Jamaica. It takes the entrepreneur through
the initial process of deciding on a business structure to registration the
company with the various government departments. Download File

Mr. Speaker, today, I stand before you as
proof in our Golden Jubilee year that the early nation-building work of Norman
Manley, Alexander Bustamante, the People’s National Party, the Jamaica Labour
Party and other pioneers, has enabled a child in Jamaica to actually fulfill
her dream and be proud to be labeled “Made in Jamaica.” Download File

Caribbean economies are required to improve
their industrial competitiveness and diversify their economic base in the
current context of global trade liberalization in part due to the erosion of
preferences in traditional exports like bananas, sugar and clothing. Download File

Stagnant, with a highly unequal income
distribution, performing way below its potential. It needs to reposition itself
in the global economy and is unable to meet the accumulated needs from social
neglect all the way back to the colonial days until now. Download File

On July 7, 2004, the Judicial Committee of the
Privy Council, 1 Jamaica’s highest court, delivered its judgment in the case of
Lambert Watson v. The Queen (Attorney General for Jamaica Intervening).In its
decision, the Privy Council held that the mandatory death penalty for murder as
applied under Jamaican law was unconstitutional and invalid. Download File

This paper presents an empirical assessment of
the degree of competition within the Jamaican banking sector during the period
1998 to 2009. We employ a dynamic version of the Panzar – Rosse Model to
estimate market power among the sample of banks that constitute over 90 percent
of the banking market. Download File

The study examines the causal relationships
among economic growth, tourism expansion and the real exchange rates in Jamaica
over the period 1963 to 2008. Both Dickey-Fuller (1979) and augmented form, and
Kwiatkowski, Phillips, Schmidt and Shin (1992) tests are used to test the
stationary properties of the variables. Download File

The goal of this study is to inform the design
of policies geared toward increasing Jamaica’s share of the revenues generated
by the global tourism industry. Accordingly, the paper’s objective is twofold:
to (i) identify the main drivers of competitiveness in travel and tourism
(T&T) product; and (ii) quantify the relative effect of each driver. Download File

The proposed international travel activity
will attempt to establish graduated and progressive ways to integrate coastal
and marine tourism sustainability studies into future student international
experiences in the Caribbean, particularly in Jamaica and the Dominican
Republic. Opportunities will be explored for international student fieldwork,
academic exchange, study-abroad courses, service-learning projects and
internships. Download File

The academic year 2010-2011 was an inflection
point in the life of the Department of Management Studies. The imperatives of
the market demand that the department becomes internationally competitive, if
it is to offer high class management education to future managers in the
Caribbean and beyond the shores of the Caribbean seas. Download File

CAPRI is a Caribbean think tank that promotes
evidence-based policymaking in the region. CAPRI espouses a methodology which
is built on the values of multi-disciplinary work, teamwork and the utilization
of the diaspora in our search for evidence. Committed to the region’s
development, CAPRI has strong linkages with the academic community and the
private sector. Download File

Jamaica ratified the CRC in 1991, after much
advocacy by the Jamaica Coalition on the Rights of the Child (JCRC). A
newly-formed non-governmental organization (NGO) at the time, the JCRC brought
together six NGOs working with children to lobby for the ratification of the
CRC and monitor its implementation. Download File

The content of this guide was developed from
the Competency Standard BSBSBM0012A, which is one of the basic building blocks
for the National Vocational Qualification of Jamaica (NVQ-J) certification
within the industry. Please refer to your Learner’s Handbook for a thorough
explanation of standards and competencies, and how these relate to the NVQ-J
certification. Download File

The creative industries have emerged to be a
key growth sector in the Caribbean economy through its contribution to GDP,
exports, and employment as well as its impact on destination and intellectual
property branding. The region has created for decades many globally
recognizable artists and events that have generated global reach. Download File

The following report documents a two day
forum, which was centered on the themes of competitiveness, innovation and
entrepreneurship, will explore topics in each of these areas, emphasizing
analytical work and the sharing of success stories from the region and beyond.
The CGF places a premium on inclusive dialogue focused. Download File

This paper looks at Jamaica’s recent history
of indebtedness, its experience during the global economic downturn, and
examines its current agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It
finds that Jamaica’s economic and social progress has suffered considerably
from the burden of an unsustainable debt; and that even after the debt
restructuring of 2010. Download File

Ongoing debates over the ability of criminal
justice organizations to reduce crime levels make it clear that their impact
can be overstated and that improving sector performance at best affects the
proximate—and not the fundamental—causes of crime. Download File

It has been hypothesized that recent crime
troubles in the Caribbean could be tied to the activities of deportees who have
learned criminal behavior in the developed countries. This report examines the
situation in Jamaica, which is one of the Caribbean countries proportionately
most affected by criminal deportations. Download File

The Jamaican society is left to deal with an
ever increasing group of teenage mothers, many of whom will not be able to
reach their true academic and hence productive potential because of the
pregnancy. The fragile economic situation of the country does not permit an
effective social welfare system to assist these young mothers. Download File

Increasingly, there is a need to assemble and
utilize datasets from a myriad of sources for the purpose of integrated and
holistic planning, ranging from development projects to transport management,
social surveys and environmental protection. Many variables intertwine which
result in observed patterns, which need explanations and ultimately action. Download File

The argument for austerity is that the State
must reduce its deficit by cutting expenditure to match the public revenues.
Public revenues have been either stagnant or declining because the economy has
been contracting in the global recession. Recession means that economic
activity slows down, employment and incomes decline. Download File

Although an independent judiciary largely
functions in practice, it operates within an overburdened system with
inadequate resources. The government has launched a three-year reform plan to
modernize and improve the court system and the effectiveness of the judiciary.
Legislation was enacted in 2004 to abolish appeals to the Judicial Committee of
the Privy Council. Download File

There are four registries, the Criminal
Registry, the Civil Registry, the Revenue Court Registry and the Gun Court Registry.
There is also a Court Reporting Department. The Civil Registry is divided into
categories: the Commercial Court Division, Probate Division, Family Division
and the Bankruptcy Division. Download File

In recent years, the mass resort market has
become increasingly competitive, with the steady rise in capacity of destinations
such as the Mexican Caribbean, Dominican Republic, and Cuba. Many of these
locations have been adding more than 1,000 hotel rooms annually for several
years and, together with the growth of the pleasure-cruise industry. Download File

The year 2006 proved to be a phenomenal year
for the growth of tourism in Jamaica due to the cooperative efforts of all
stakeholders, both in the private and public sectors. The island achieved a
record performance in visitor arrivals with 1.68 million stopover arrivals in
2006, a 13.5% increase over the 1.48 million recorded. Download File

The argument for increasing health promoting
messages for older persons is getting stronger, as an increasing number of
studies provide evidence that there can be a reduction in ill health and
disability in older persons' lifestyle and behaviour, play a significant role
in the development of chronic conditions such as heart disease, and diabetes. Download File

On May 4th, 2010, the Jamaica Plain/Egleston
Elder Care Network and the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) hosted a
meeting about issues important to older adults in Jamaica Plain (JP). This
event was a follow-up to the BPHC “Healthy Aging Community Meeting,” held in
December of 2008. Download File

Although the overwhelming majority of Jamaican
children and adolescents are well adjusted, a substantial group exhibits high
levels of maladjustment and deficient functioning (1). A perfunctory review of
Jamaican newspapers and television talk-shows reveals that violence, particularly
violence perpetrated by youths, is of major concern in every sector of Jamaican
society. Download File

Ethnomedicine refers to the study of
traditional medical practice which is concerned with the cultural
interpretation of health, diseases and illness and also addresses the
healthcare seeking process and healing practices. Download File

This Report updates prior studies on the
practice of fatal police shootings and extrajudicial executions in Jamaica, as
well as the “pattern of impunity” that feeds it. In addition to providing the
latest empirical evidence on police killings, we examine the recent functioning
of the authorities, mechanisms, and procedures charged under Jamaican law. Download File

The problems of crime and the quality of
justice have become central issues in public debate and important public policy
concerns in a number of Caribbean countries. This problem is perhaps most acute
in Jamaica which has acquired an unenviable reputation for having a high rate
of violent crime. Download File

This Paper aims to outline Jamaica’s health
financing system by describing how it carries out the various functions to
achieve its objectives and determine whether achievements have had any impact
on the performance of the general health system. The Study is based on a desk
review of policy and budgetary documents. Download File

In Jamaica’s case, the report finds that there
is already considerable collaboration between the Canadian International
Development Agency (CIDA) and its official counterparts in Jamaica. Nonetheless
it identifies a number of areas where there could be greater coordination with
other Canadian public and private sector actors—ranging from information
sharing to more substantive input into policy-making. Download File

This paper presents an overview of the
informal market economy in Jamaica, a sector that represents approximately 40%
of total GDP output. Specifically, we focus on the impact of the informal
economy on productivity, economic growth, and social welfare. We present a
discussion in favor of a transition from the informal to formal markets. Download File

This paper provides a state of the art survey
in selected aspects of globalization and education. It emphasizes the central
role that education plays in shaping and responding to globalization. It also
describes how globalization affects education outcomes. Download File

Total early-stage entrepreneurship (TEA) in
Jamaica for 2010 was 10.54% down from 22.7% in 2009. Nascent entrepreneurs
accounted for almost half of the TEA (5.03%) while the other half (5.51%)
represented new businesses. The proportion of males (51%) engaged in
entrepreneurial activity was not much different from that of females (49%). Download File

Loan programs in two different countries,
Israel and Jamaica, are compared and contrasted, in order to identify common
elements of project design, selection, and institutional norms. Utilizing
agency theory, this article examines what types of borrowers successfully
navigate the credit market and to what extent the bureaucratic processes
employed by institutions influence and bias outcomes. Download File

The importance of effective tourism planning
in ensuring economic benefit and sustainability is now widely recognized. This
volume introduces concepts of national and regional tourism planning and looks
at the basic approaches, techniques and principles applied at this level. Download File

The objective of the paper is to explain this
growth puzzle by analyzing the contribution of key factors using growth
accounting and regression analysis. The result highlights the importance of the
quality of political and institutional climates in driving economic growth
within the Caribbean region. Download File

This study is motivated by the value percept
disparity theory for relating perception to value within the context of
customer satisfaction; and utilizes multiple regression modeling to determine
the attributes of the all-inclusive package that are predictors of ‘value for
money’. Download File

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade
and Consumer Protection is asking Wisconsin residents to be on the lookout for
potential phone scams originating from Jamaica. The Consumer Protection Bureau
has already received more than a dozen written complaints this year from
Wisconsin residents who were contacted by Jamaican scammers. Download File

The following is an investigation into the
historical attributes of Black River and the extent to which these relics can
be restored and promoted with a view to enhancing Heritage Tourism in this
rural Jamaica. Download File